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in the turf above the sandy beach; Machico, Rib. do Seixo, 
S ta Cruz, Porto Novo, Cani^o and Cabo Garajao, in sunny waste 
ground, roads and paths most abund. ; also at P t0 da Cruz in the 
north. May-Sept. — Plant gregarious cespitose with stoloni- 
ferous shoots forming perennial beds or patches. Habit or 
foliage most like that of T. repens L. but smaller. Root strong 
tough thick and woody, long and tapering, striking down deep 
into the soil. St. 3-12 in. long creeping interlacing and running 
partly under ground, throwing out at frequent intervals strong- 
tough and fibrous roots, and thus forming large perennial beds 
or patches. Herbage bright full gr. nearly smooth ; st. stip. and 
upper surface of lf'ts. quite smooth ; ped. petioles and midrib 
beneath especially of young 1. a little hairy. Petioles distinct 
slender filiform often elongate. Lfts. small stiffish unspotted, 
elegantly striate especially beneath with numerous straight re- 
gular close-set parallel forked nerves, more distinct or thickened 
towards the margins. Stip. ovate acuminate or lanceolate finely 
pointed whitish with gr. nerves. Ped. 3-4 in. long curved as- 
cending. Heads large hemispherical in fh, globose in fr., with 
a large distinct multifid involucre formed of the confluent linear- 
lanceolate bractlets of the lowest ring of fl. which are as long 
as their calyxes. Fl. rose, much longer than the cal. -teeth. 
Standard broad flat truncate or very obtuse streaked with very 
fine deeper pink lines ; -wings short, keel still shorter. Heads 
in fr. nearly or quite half an in. in diam. compactly and neatly 
globose, the inflated cal. being close-packed and half immersed 
like the grains (drupes) of a raspberry or blackberry, acquiring 
usually a pink or rosy, sometimes blood-red or crimson tinge, 
resembling Hautboy strawberries, or peaches ; whilst the dried- 
up brown cor., standing out straight on all sides from the soft 
not densely velvety surface, give them also the appearance of 
those short-spiked balls called Morning-stars (Morgensterne), 
formerly used in battle. Pods quite enclosed in the inflated cal. 
1-2-seeded orbicular. Seeds globose or orbicular i. e. somewhat 
flattened, varying from y. through tawny or chestnut to dark 
brown or blackish. In the 2-seeded pods they are usually less 
globose than in the 1-seeded. 
I find, like Brotero, the pods usually 1-seeded. Curtis, Smith, 
Babington, and DeCandolle describe them as 2-seeded. 
Though not mentioned in WB.’s Canarian Flora, T. fragife- 
rum L. occurs in such profusion in the neighbourhood of Laguna 
in Tenerife, especially along the road to Las Mercedes, that it 
could not have been unseen, and therefore was most probably 
confounded with the next sp., which, on the other hand, I never 
met with either near Laguna or elsewhere in Tenerife. Both sp. 
have been sent, however, to BH. and II1I. by Bourgeau from the 
